166: Food & Flexibility
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For some strange reason, many yoga students overlook the importance of diet on their yoga practice—and this is a huge mistake. "You are what you eat," is a phrase everyone has heard, but in yoga, it's even more true than in other activities. Certain foods digest quickly, nourish your soft tissues, and simply make practice easier. Other foods fry your nervous system, slow digestion, and add unnecessary roadblocks to your practice.
In this Show, You'll learn:
- Why micronutrients are so important
- Which foods nourish your body's connective tissues
- Natural plant foods that turn off inflammation
- Nervous system balancing foods to eat and avoid
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
trade in your refined white sugar for coconut palm sugar!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Yoga Talk Show is sponsored by Absolute Yoga Academy, the Yoga Teacher Training School that I founded back in 2006. |
| 0:08.0 | This year, 2015, we have our 2000th graduate coming through our program program so it's a big year for us it's really |
| 0:14.7 | exciting I'm just back from Thailand I've been there for our level two course which happens in |
| 0:19.6 | August this is our teacher training for teachers who are looking to take their teaching to the next level |
| 0:25.8 | One of the things that I've learned about the best teachers is it's almost never the person with the best practice It's almost never the person with the best practice. |
| 0:32.8 | It's almost never the person with a quote unquote perfect body. |
| 0:36.8 | It's almost never that person. |
| 0:39.3 | It's without exception. |
| 0:40.6 | It's the person who's the most passionate and who is the most dedicated |
| 0:44.8 | to their yoga practice. Those are the teachers who are really magnetic. |
| 0:47.8 | Those are the people who turn up to our level two course. Those are the |
| 0:50.6 | people who are local leaders in their communities. Those are the people who are local leaders in their communities. |
| 0:53.0 | Those are the industry transformers that might not make a lot of noise on an international level. |
| 0:59.0 | But on a local level, they're making a huge, huge difference in terms of helping people learn how to use |
| 1:05.7 | their bodies take control of their health and really reach mind body wellness. |
| 1:10.2 | To learn more about our teacher training courses, our level one, 200 hour courses, |
| 1:15.0 | and our level two course, please visit absolute yoga academy.com. |
| 1:20.0 | And with that, enjoy the show. |
| 1:29.0 | What is it with you and the raw food? You are always talking about the raw food. |
| 1:32.4 | Hello and welcome to the Yoga talk show with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 1:35.0 | This is a special bonus episode. |
| 1:37.0 | I've been doing these recently and they've been very popular so I thought I will do another one the topic for this |
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